The deadly car ramming incident took place in Charlottesville, Virginia when a car plowed through a group of anti-fascist activists who were protesting a far-right rally. RT wraps up what is known about the incident so far.

What happened

The "Unite the Right" rally, held in the city on Saturday, was spurred by city's plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a local park. The city council approved the removal of the monument in April, but the dismantling was suspended in May for six months amid multiple lawsuits.

Far-right activists flocked to Charlottesville for the rally, while hundreds of anti-fascists turned up to protest the far right's rally.

Both sides clashed in the streets, using bats, shields and deploying pepper spray and other substances. The street violence resulted in several arrests and a number of people being injured, while the police declared a state of emergency in downtown Charlottesville, amid fears of violence escalation.

The vehicle stopped only after colliding with another car. Several counter-protesters attacked the vehicle with bats, smashing its windows and trying to prevent the driver from leaving the scene.

Their attempt, however, was futile, as the driver rode away in reverse at high speed, hitting several more people.

Victims

A woman, identified as 32-year-old Heather Heyer from Ohio, was killed during the incident, while 19 others were injured. All the injured victims are being treated by the University of Virginia Medical Center. Five of them remain in critical condition and four in serious condition, while 10 others are in "fair" or "good" condition, according to the hospital.

Friends of Heather Heyer have launched a fundraising campaign for her family. The fundraising has surpassed the initial goal of $50,000 less than in a day.

Suspect

The attacker was identified as 20-year-old James Alex Fields from Ohio. He was taken into custody following the deadly incident, charged with one count of second degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, one count of failure to prevent a hit-and-run incident and one count of failure to stop for an accident involving a death.

The FBI and US attorneys have launched a civil rights investigation, Reuters reports, citing the FBI field office. Depending on the outcome of the FBI investigation, the suspect might face not only state but federal charges as well.

Fields' mother, Samantha Bloom, has confirmed that her son was attending the rally, stating that she thought the event was for President Trump, not white supremacists. "I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump's not a white supremacist," Bloom told AP.

Domestic terrorism?

While the police investigate the incident as a "vehicular homicide," several US officials have described the event as a domestic terrorist act. Speaking with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, branded the incident "a clear terrorist attack with a car used as a weapon."

Comment: Considering the US government's actions in the "war on terror" over the last 15 or so years, this is a very slippery slope.

President Trump's national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, who also appeared on the program, expressed a similar attitude toward the incident.

"Anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it meets the definition of terrorism," McMaster said. "What you see here is a criminal act against fellow Americans. A criminal act that may have been motivated - and we'll see what's turned up in this investigation - by this hatred and bigotry, which I mentioned we have to extinguish in our nation."

Police have not released any information on the possible motives of the suspect yet.

Comment: The country has been deeply divided by the deep state and the psychopaths in power, with the now-ponerized liberal left leading the charge in the current division and inciting violence. Charlottesville is likely a harbinger of what's to come on a more massive scale in America, as the liberals' efforts to erase the past conflict with the conservatives' desire to preserve it, resulting in more violent conflict that continues to increase in scale.

With the labeling of this incident as domestic terrorism, the deep state faction of the US government now has the justification in place to increase the authoritarian control that it has been slowly implementing over the last decade and a half in the "war on terror".

Extremely graphic footage shows the moment a car crashed into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman and injuring 19 other people. Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer called the incident a "terrorist attack with a car used as a weapon."...
The disturbing footage shows people trying to escape as the gray Dodge Challenger approaches at high speed, but the narrow street ends up becoming a deadly trap. The vehicle plows through crowd, sending people flying into the air.

Both the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, and President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, have labeled the car attack at a Virginia rally on Saturday an act of terrorism. Police have not made any statements about the motive of the driver yet.
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Reacting to the loss of life on Saturday, President Trump issued a statement on Twitter condemning the "egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides," but did not explicitly mention the car crash nor the white supremacist nature of the rally. Other members of the Republican Party, however, starting with Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, called the incident an instance of domestic terrorism.

"Mr. President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism," Gardner wrote on Twitter. He was followed by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who called the incident "a terror attack by white supremacists," as well as Ted Cruz of Texas, who called for an immediate Department of Justice investigation into "this grotesque act of domestic terrorism."

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, whose brother was killed in action during World War II, also sharply condemned the incident, tweeting: "We should call evil by its name. My brother didn't give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home."

agni Sure, pit the slack jaw non-thinkers against the normally-compassionate thinkers and the former will kill the latter while you, the depraved manipulators, profit in the (many) ways that float your particular incarnation of the Titanic.

But the answer to you question is...FORGET IT...!!! We only tend to unite in like minded groups/tribes and then become war like aggressive if anyone wants a piece of our turf or a slice of the pie...Human Nature...Exploited to the max by the PTB...

agni It can only happen with an honest critical thinking and a truly free MSM...and as a response from the public we get honest Government...honest Science...honest ummmm....SH*T I better stop right now...I'm in La La Land...

But what do we do with Greed that can re-start the whole process as fast as one can say...God I love money...!!! Oh well...

The result of not being entrained by the left/right paradigm is not 'middle', rather 'middle' is the result of being entrained by said paradigm, in the recent French election Emmanuel Macron could be seen as 'middle'